National/international news media

Two leading cross-industry standards bodies in the UK and US this week announced they are aligning many of their key initiatives to create a consistent approach to tackling the big issues facing digital advertising and to increase industry adoption.

dmg media advertising has appointed former MailOnline Commercial Editor and Daily Mail journalist Anne Shooter as Head of Commercial partnerships within its new single sales unit, encompassing the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Metro and Metro.co.uk.

Daily Mail and General Trust reports revenue up 2% on an underlying basis in the first three months of FY 2018. Outlook for the year is unchanged and in line with current market expectations, says the company.

Ad tech firms Rezonence and Smartology, along with science and technology institute and media owner, The Smithsonian, are to become the first associate members of the World Media Group as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.

The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice at Deloitte, the business advisory firm, has this week its predictions for the UK media sector in 2018. The news comes following the launch of the seventeenth edition of TMT Predictions 2018.

The Guardian Foundation has joined with the National Literacy Trust and the PSHE Association to announce News Wise, a pilot news literacy programme for primary school children and teachers, funded by Google for its first year.

The Editors’ Code of Practice, under which the majority of Britain’s newspaper, magazine and news website journalists work, is to be revised, and one important change offers increased protection to children accused of crime.

A year-long research project involving Unilever, Nestlé, i2c, Nielsen, Nectar and the IAB UK has revealed the degree to which online display ads drive sales of popular household brands both in-store and online.

Miles 33 has announced that both the Record-Journal and the Westerly Sun have gone live on the new GN4 Editorial CMS. The project was completed in less than 90 days, and all print and digital channels have made the transition to Miles 33.

In a special edition of The Scottish Sun today, every copy sold will raise money for Mary’s Meals, the Scottish charity which is part of a global movement to provide meals to some of the world’s poorest children in a place of learning every school day.

This week, Guardian US launched a fundraising initiative to support The Mother Load, a new editorial project exploring what makes motherhood in America more challenging than in any other developed country – and what we can do about it.

In our latest webinar, Circdata’s Hellen Beveridge covered the 3Ps of GDPR – Personal Data, Processing and Permission. In the Q&A that followed, there were more questions than time to answer them, so Hellen here answers some of the questions she didn’t get around to and gives fuller answers to some of those she did.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) today announced the launch of the IPSO mark, a visual symbol that can be used by all its publications to show their commitment to professional standards and an edited, regulated product.

If any publisher still harboured any doubts as to the nature and scale of the challenges they faced, this year would have helped dispel them. In what has been a challenging twelve months, writes Peter Preston, there was one small fillip: the demand for “proper” news is stronger than ever.

The output from this year’s Publishing Futures project is not so much a report, but more of a diagnostic tool. It provides the structure for publishers to “run the ruler” over their operations to get a better sense of how their business is functioning overall, writes Jim Bilton.

It was the year the US president kept up his assault on the press as ‘fake news’ and in the UK, some in the media were accused of being unpatriotic and wanting Brexit to fail. There was also some self-criticism. How did journalists fail to predict Theresa May’s disastrous general election result and missed the surge in support for Jeremy Corbyn? Why did the media not report the concerns of the Grenfell Tower residents before the fire? Jon Slattery picks his best media quotes of 2017.